Bunsen Burner

A Bunsen burner is a kind of gas burner used as laboratory equipment, producing a single open flame used for heating, sterilization, and combustion, and named after the German chemist Robert Bunsen. It can burn natural gas, liquefied petroleum gases such as propane and butane, or coal gas, and its flame temperature depends on the fuel mixture used. In 1852 the University of Heidelberg hired Bunsen and gave him a new laboratory building with gas lines, and by late 1854 he had worked with the university's laboratory mechanic Peter Desaga to design a burner that mixed gas with air in a controlled way before combustion, producing a hot, sootless, non luminous flame. When the new building opened in early 1855, Desaga had already built fifty of these burners for Bunsen's students, and the design spread widely after Bunsen published a description of it two years later. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/